Bottle-washing machine.



No. 669,267. VFammi' Mar. 5, |901,

.1. H. neen.

BUTTLE WASHING MACH-INE.

(Application led Dec. 15, 1900.)

(No Model.)

l Witnesses: Inventor:

James H Iieed,

- UNirnn STATES vPATENT rrlcn.

JAMES H. REED, OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH M. HOYT, WILLIAM G. IIOYT, AND CHARLES HEALY, OF LYNN, MASSA- CHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 669.267, dated- MaI'Ch 5, 1901.

Application filed December 15, 1900. Serial No. 40,038. (No model.)

To all whom, t may cm1/cern: tially and end wise,'an(l there heilig no means Be it known that l, JAMES H. REED, of provided for taking up the wearsaid bushing Swampscott, in the county of Essex and State and its inclosing sleeve soon became so badly 55 ot` Massachusetts, haveinvented certain newA worn as to necessitate the removal of said 5 and useful Improvements in Bottle-Washing Worn parts and replacing thernwilh new ones Machines of which the following, taken in ata considerable expense. To obviate these connection with the accompanying drawings, objectionable features is the object of my inis a specification. vent-ion, and to this end Iconstrnct the brush- 6o My invention relates to bottle-washing mainelosing sleeve and its supporting cross-head lo chines, and especially to a brush iuclosing as illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

sleeve, is an improvement upon the invenin whichtion shown and described in the Letters Pat- 1 is the sleeve-supportingcross-head,mountent No. 329,390, granted to Joseph M. Hoyt ed upon and movable endwise of the guide- 65 and William G. Hoyt October 27, 1885, and rods 2 2, only portions of which are shown,

I5 it consists in certain novel features4 of consaid cross-head having two bearings 3 and L1 struction, arrangement, and combination of on each guide-rod in order to gire greater parts, which will be readily understood by stability theretoandis also provided with two reference to the description of the accompa'- clamping-bearings 5 and o for holding :he 7o nying drawings and to the claims hereto apnon-revoluble sections ofthe brush-receiving zo pended and in Which my invention is clearly sleeve,the lower portions ofthe bearings5 and pointed out. 6 being slotted through and provided with Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan of the ears 7 upon opposite sides of said slot., which brush-inclosing sleeve and the cross-head for have fitted therein clamping-screws 8, by 75 carrying the same. Fig. 2 is a section on line which said hearings may be firmly clamped 25 A A on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section to the front and rear sections 9 and 10, respecon line B B on Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longituditively, of the brush-receiving sleeve, so that nal section of the sleeve drawn to an enlarged said sections 4cannot revolve. scale. Fig. 5 is an end view of the revoluble The sleeve-section 9 has its frontend bored 8o section of said sleeve. Figs. 6 and 7 are reout to form a bell-mouth to receive the end 3o spectively an end view and a plan of a no'nof the neck of the bottle to be washed, and revoluble bushing for the rear non-revoluble by the pressure of which the sleeve and its section of said sleeve. carrying cross-head is moved toward the rear In the machineillustrated in the above-cited till the brush enters the bottle and reaches 85 f Letters Patent the brush-inclosingv sleeve, the its bottom.

35 bodyof which was non-revoluble,was provided The bore of the sleeve-section 9 for about with a revoluble bushing which surrounded two-thirds of its length from its rear end is the brush when said sleeve was in its most bored to a larger diameter to receive the front advanced position and revolved therewith. end of the revolving sleeve-section 11, the This revoluble bushing was entirely inclosed front end of said counter-bore of section t be- 4o by the main body of the sleeve, and therefore ing frusto-conical or in the form of a conical was not Visible to the eye, and there Was no valve-seat 12, against which the correspondmeans of knowing whether said bushing did ingly-shaped front end ot the revoluble secrevolve With the brush or not; but as a mattion 11 is seated. The rear non-revoluble 95 ter of fact it has been found that said bnshsection 10 of the brush-holding sleeve `is also 45 ing did often become clogged, so that it would counterbored at its front end to receive the not revolve While the brush continued to rerear end of the revoluble section 11, which is volve, and as a consequence the brush would also madeA frusto-conical and tits a corresoon be so badly injured as to make it necspondingly-shaped non-revoluhle seat 13 in 1 o essai-y to replace it with a new one. Another said sleeve-section 10. This seat 13 may be 5o disadvantage of the construction shown in formed as a part of the sleeve-section 10, or

said patent was that the revolving bushing it may be formed on the front end of a bushwas subjected to great wear both circumferening 14, fitted within the counterbore of said vss section and movable endwise therein to contact with the conical end of the section ll by the tension of the spring 15, but prevented from revolving with the brush by the screwpin 16, which enters the longitudinal groove or keyway 17, all as shown in Figs. 2, 4, 6, and 7. The exterior diameter of the sleevesection 1l is made slightly less than the diameter of the counterbores of the sections 9 and 10, and as a consequence if the conical ends of the section 11 are kept in contact with the seats 12 and 13 there will be no contact of the periphery lof said sleeve-section 11 with the inner surfaces of the counterbores of said sleeve-sections 9 and 10, and therefore no circumferential Wear of said parts.

Between the sleevesections 9 and 10 the revoluble section 11 is not inclosed, but is visible to the eye of the operator, and it' at any time while the brush is inclosed therein said section does not revolve the operator will know that something is wrong and he will proceed to investigate and remedy the difculty.

The sleeve-section 11 has formed in its periphery two circumferential grooves 1S andl 19, into which the inner ends of the screwpins 20 and 2l, respectively, enter without pressing upon said section to clamp it and prevent it from revolving when it is moved forward to inclose the brush, the office of said pins and grooves being to prevent the separation ofthe three sections ofthe brush-inclosing sleeve when removed from the bearings in the cross-head 1 untilsuch time as it is desi red to separate said parts.

The two frusto-conical ends of the sleevesection 1l have formed therein a series of cavities 22, which are filled with plumbago, as shown in Figs. 4. and 5, said plumbago servingr to lubricate the frusto-conical bearings ot `said sleeve -sections, and thus reduce the endwise wear of said bearings to a minimum.

A bushing 23 is secu red in a xed position in the sleeve-section 10 by the set-screw 24, the bore of said bushing being made to it the tubular shaft 25 to the front end ot' which is secured the brush 26., and also has mounted upon its rear end suitable driving-pulleys, (not shown, but constructed and operatingsubstantially as in said prior patent hereinbefore cited,) and said tubular shaft is also con necred to a source ot' water-supply and is packed within the sleeve-section 10 by means ot' the screw plug or gland 27 and suitable packing 28 placed between said gland and the bushing 23, all of the parts mentioned in this paragraph being constructed and arranged to operate substantially as in said before-cited patent.

Between the shoulder 29, formed at the rear end of the counterbore of the section l0, and the rear end of the endwise-movable bushing 14 is inserted the coiled spring 15, the tension of which tends to press said bushing into contact with the rear end' of the sleeve-section 11 and the frontend of said section into con? tact with the frusto-conical shoulder or seat 12 in the sleeve-section 9.

I claim- 1. In a bottle-Washing machine, the combination with a revolving tubular shaft, constructed and arranged to supply water to the brush and bottle, and an expansible brush carried by the front end of said shaft and revoluble therewith, of a brush inclosing sleeve made in three sections, two of which are noni'evoluble and separated from each other, while the third and central section has its end portions fitted to bearings in said nonrevoluble sections so as to be revoluble therein while its central portion is uniuclosed and visible to the eye of the operator; and means connecting said sleeve-sections whereby all of said sections may be moved endwise in unison to cover or uncover said brush.

2. In a bottle-washing machine the combination with a revolving and expansible brush, of a brush-inclosing sleeve comprising two non-revolving sections in axial line with but separated from'each other; and each provided with an internal truste-conical shoulder or seat, and a revolving section mounted in bearings in said non-revoluble section and engaging said truste-conical seats, with its central portion, between said non-revolu ble sections exposed to view; and a cross-head constructed and arranged to clamp said two non-revoluble sections and mount-ed upon suitable slides and adapted to be moved with said sleeve to cover and uncover the brush.

3. In a bottle-washing machine a brush inclosingsleeve comprising two non-revolving sections in axial line with but separated from each other, and each provided with an internal frusto-conical shou lderorseat', and a revolnble section fitted to bearings in said two non -revolving sections and having trustoconical ends to engage said truste-conical shoulders or seats in said non-revolving secv tions, said revoluble section having a series of cavities formed in each of its truste-conical ends; and a lubricating substance as plumbago inserted in and lling said cavities.

, 4. In a bottle-washing machine the combination with a revolving and expansible brush,

of a brush-inclosing sleeve comprising the non-revoluble section 9 provided with the frusto-conical seat 12, the non-revoluble section 10 provided with the shoulder 29, the section 11 having truste-conical ends; the non-revoluble bushing 14, and the spring 15 all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as described.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specication, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 13th day of December, A. D. 1900.

JAMES H. REED.

Witnesses:

N. C. LOMBARD, J. HOUSTON STEvENsoN.

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